Psalms 35:2
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Psalms 35:2 in other translations
| BSB | Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid. |
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| WEB | Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. |
| ASV | Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. |
| YLT | Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help, |
| DARBY | Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help; |
| BBE | Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help. |
| Webster | Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. |
What does Psalms 35:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 35:1-3
Psa 35:1-28. The Psalmist invokes God's aid, contrasting the hypocrisy, cunning, and malice of his enemies with his integrity and generosity. The imprecations of the first part including a brief notice of their conduct, the fuller exposition of their hypocrisy and malice in the second, and the earnest prayer for deliverance from their scornful triumph in the last, are each closed (Psa 35:9, 10, 18, 27, 28) with…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 35:1-10
It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman. David in his afflictions, Christ in his sufferings, the church under persecution, and the Christian in the hour temptation, all beseech the Almighty to appear in their behalf, and to vindicate their cause. We are apt to justify…
Psalms 35:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 35:2
- Psalms 91:4
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
- Exodus 15:3
The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
- Isaiah 42:13
The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
- Deuteronomy 32:41-42
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
- Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
- Psalms 7:12-13
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
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Context
- Psalms 35:1
A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- Psalms 35:2
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
- Psalms 35:3
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms 35:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Echa mano al escudo y al pavés, y levántate en mi ayuda. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Saisis l’écu et le bouclier, et lève-toi à mon secours. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ergreife Tartsche und Schild, und stehe auf zu meiner Hülfe! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dixit injustus ut delinquat in semetipso: non est timor Dei ante oculos ejus. |